Leo Gura

I don't like the idea of banning people for a mere difference of opinion. People here are banned when they violate the list of Forum Guidelines. The amount of flack I would get for banning people who disagreed with my philosophy would be endless. I have to bite my tongue a lot on here, so as not to appear dictatorial. People who don't buy into enlightenment won't hang around here very long anyhow. They will naturally lose interest. The more realistic problem is people creating factions over their favorite version of nonduality while poo-pooing the rest. This is a much more serious problem which has plagued every spiritual community since the dawn of human civilization and spilled much blood. And the sad part is, people still haven't learned the lesson. What we need most of all is tolerance and compassion for other perspectives.

If you guys aren't open to learning, why are you here? I've told you things which are extremely nuanced and profound. This stuff requires years of work to understand. Coming here and acting cocky and flippant is not going to cut it. It's extremely obvious that you have not glimpsed the Absolute or thought deeply about the nature of science or epistemology. Yet here you are trying to advance some position. Be careful not to underestimate reality. It does not work the way you think.

@aEOf I forget now if it was 28mg or 30mg.

Yes, but at some point you will discover why it must be so, and why it is perfect. God left you clueless so that you can experience the thrill of awakening to your own infinite being. If you already knew the punchline, that would be a shame in a sense. You have been given the gift of ignorance so that you could come to know yourself as God.

There's nothing wrong with focusing on getting your life together. Just keep your meditation practice going. It's not a big weight. Plenty of people manage to run their life and meditate an hour a day. Kriya yoga, for example, was designed to only take about 1 hour per day. The instruction was: spend 1 hour per day on yoga and enlightenment, and the rest of your day handling your business and family obligations. You do not need to become an ascetic to become enlightened. Just do your practices more diligently. Quality > quantity. I know people who do 2-3 hours per day of yoga and still manage to run a busy life. A very effective structure is this: 1-2 hours per day of inquiry + four 10-day solo retreats per year. The rest of the time, do whatever business you got. Another option is: take 3 months off and go balls-to-the-wall with inquiry. 24/7. Get your awakening breakthrough and then return to ordinary life, deepening your realization with 1 hour per day of meditation/yoga.

The key delusion of the ego is that it thinks it's in control. That's how it justifies it's perpetuation. It's sort of like a tyrant who keeps insisting the country would die without him. He will conjure up all sorts of phony evidence to show that he's working really hard to keep the whole thing together. But the key question is, why would you believe the tyrant when he has a clear conflict of interest? Of course the fox guarding the hen house will say, "I'm needed to protect all these chickens! Without me, someone's gonna eat them all."

Because it's abso-fucking-lute. You won't understand until you see it. The ordinary mind is incapable of knowing it. It only makes sense at the moment of enlightenment. If you knew it already, you'd be enlightened and we wouldn't be having this conversation. If you want a quick and guaranteed way to grasp this, find some 5-MeO-DMT. Or spend a few thousand hours meditating towards it.

He didn't contradict anything I said. He's using the word PRINCIPLE there in a particular context. He's talking about the "physical world" and pragmatically how to operate effectively within it. He's speaking about relative truths there, for purpose of teaching martial arts. What people normally consider "gravity" is a very tricky thing. It's a highly abstract concept which they mistake for something out there in the "physical world", which is also another concept. See, there is big difference between something like "a cat", and the actual furry creature sitting on your couch. "A cat", "a creature", "a couch"... these are also abstractions. Obviously no such things exist. You've never see "a cat", you've only seen specific animated colors and shapes which your mind then constructed into "a cat". Saying what I'm saying doesn't make "the cat" disappear. It just highlights taken-for-granted conceptual projections which the mind casts upon the world. Imagine being a newborn baby. He does not see "a cat". He sees something, but it ain't "a cat" and it doesn't come with all the conceptual baggage that your notion of "a cat" comes with. The whole point is that words and concepts like "cat" or "gravity" are not isolated things, they are part of an infinite semantic web which makes up your entire worldview and sense of reality. Pull on these concepts long enough and eventually your entire sense of reality will unravel like a knitted sweater, and you along with it. Because you too, are a concept. You speak of things you do not yet comprehend. Watch out for the trap of making this about me. Whatever your feelings or assumptions about me, that's YOUR stuff. Finger pointing at the moon.

I've read some trip reports of people passing out for like 30 minutes or becoming red-in-the-face from lack of oxygen. I can't imagine that is healthy or safe. But then again, people do very stupid things, like eyeballing doses of 5-MeO without a miligram scale.

This work takes a certain kind of maturity. You're not ready for the full implications of nonduality yet. What you call nihilism is just a fear of becoming groundless. Yes, reality is meaningless, but what you fail to understand is that nihilism goes full-circle into divinity and infinite love. It's precisely because everything is meaningless, that it can be unconditionally loved. Drop your ideological positions and petty personal needs. Then the true beauty of reality will be revealed to you. Or don't, and stay stuck in your egoic, contracted paradigm. Either way is fine.

Yes. That's why it took a genius of Isaac Newton's caliber to invent it. Spirituality leads to Absolute Infinity. It's ABSOLUTE. It contains everything possible. Period. It is not a cognition, perception, or perspective. It's what remains when all perspective is abolished.

Spirituality needs to be balanced with mastery of the mundane world. Unless your plan is to live in a cave. Navigating ordinary life requires constant learning and growing. Survival is a tricky business, and it's best when you teach yourself how to do it artfully -- given as how you're here surviving 24/7 until your death. People who become too mystical, too spiritual without grounding themselves in mundane reality have money problems, relationship problems, housing problems, family problems, etc. That's not how you want to be. A decent guru will refuse to teach you spirituality until he sees that you have managed to handle ordinary life well. If you cannot pay your bills, what chance do you have at enlightenment? Learn to walk before you fly.

Nothing wrong with being a fool.

@Speedscarlet I don't see how. Kriya is about going straight for the Absolute. The Absolute is faceless and formless.

@Speedscarlet Of course there are highly specialize techniques. Entire mystical schools and traditions have been created around this. Many different kinds of yoga, meditation, mantras, prayer, etc. It's a very technical subject. Tibetan Buddhism is big into it. As is Shaiva Tantra.

@NoSelfSelf That's what they say. I cannot confirm or deny. But I have switched to fluoride-free toothpaste.

@Samra Solo is the best. You just have to know what you're doing (by doing the online research) and follow the guidelines I've outlined in my How To Use Psychedelics video. Then again, if you're too scared, this isn't the path for you. You need to be very mature and responsible to follow this path successfully. But, damn, is it awesome!

@Epsilon_The_Imperial Because you haven't experienced "the Void", you can't appreciate what it really means. It's not merely "the Void". It's ABSOLUTE INFINITY! That means, it includes everything possible simultaneously. There is nothing you can dream up which isn't already there. There is nothing beyond the Void because the Void is literally EVERYTHING! Can you even begin to fathom how significant that is??? No, you cannot. Not without it killing you.

@Speedscarlet It is done through intense visualization techniques and devotion. You need to have such high levels of devotion that you will literally spawn a deity. This is not light-hearted stuff! But it certainly can be done. You'd probably need your Ajna chakra (3rd eye) opened. And you'd probably need to have some paranormal talents. I have an autobiography of a modern day yogi who achieved this through intense meditation. You can find the book in my book list. It's the first one in the Newest Books section. There you can read how much work it takes.

@Mercurio3 With snorting you could also have breathing problems. This all depends on you, and your dose. You can white-out on snorted doses too. Which is why this substance must be treated with utmost respect. Your hands should tremble as you hold this substance in your hands. Treat it like a loaded gun. Personally, I've never had problems breathing up to 28mg. Haven't gone beyond that. P.S. Thanks for the subtitles.

@StrangerWatch Good/bad, better/worse, evil, value, worth, purpose, and meaning are all projections of your ego-mind. They do not exist. The holocaust is no different than any other physical occurrence. The only difference is, you are deeply invested in it, and it hurts your ego to allow for it. Hence you refuse you give up your judgments. Because they are necessary for your self-image to survive. But you are highly biased. So none of your positions can be taken as truth. You do not care what the truth is in this case. You care about how to keep yourself alive. You've confused these two things. You're not likely to breakout of this self-biased way of thinking about the world until you have an ego-death experience. Only then will you truly understand the power of the dynamic I'm describing. Although it should be pretty obvious simply from a philosophical chain of reasoning why all value, worth, and morality must be utterly subjective. Hardly any two human beings agree about morality. That's should be a dead giveaway that it's not objective.

Watch out! It definitely is possible to kill yourself with 5-MeO such that you will never come back. If your breathing truly stops and you black out, you will suffocate to death. Try snorting HCl. It's much gentler, but it will still skull-fuck you in the end.

@Epsilon_The_Imperial Nothing is real. Discover this for yourself.

@Echoes So what's your proposed alternative? You gonna pretend to sit on your ass in a nihilistic stupor? That's pretending too. By all means, if you want, stick your body on a bed of nails and eat Cheetos. What you're missing is, you can't derive an ought from an is.

@SOUL Nothing about the "physical world" is objective because it is a function of human cognition. You think an ant experiences the same physical world? Nope! Whatever scientific knowledge you have is from the HUMAN species perspective, which is the very definition of subjective. Whereas spirituality can give you access to the Absolute, which is the only objective thing there is.